Power plants and the grid in San Luis Potosí
San Luis Potosí has 15 power plants with 3.3 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 1.1 GW.
Capacity by fuel
15 power plants with 3.3 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 1.1 GW from 1 plant (34%)
- Oil: 990 MW from 2 plants (30%)
- Solar: 670 MW from 4 plants (20%)
- Wind: 400 MW from 2 plants (12%)
- Biomass: 81 MW from 4 plants (2%)
- Hydro: 19 MW from 2 plants (1%)
Largest plants
- Tamazunchale: Natural gas, 1.1 GW
- Villa de Reyes: Oil, 700 MW
- Planta fotovoltaica Potosí Solar: Solar, 300 MW
- Termoeléctrica del Golfo: Oil, 290 MW
- Dominica Energia Limpia: Wind, 200 MW
- Dominica energía limpia: Wind, 200 MW
- Parque Fotovoltaico San Luis Potosi: Solar, 170 MW
- Potosí Iberdrola: Solar, 170 MW
- Ingenio San Miguel del Naranjo: Biomass, 49 MW
- Salsipuedes PV solar farm: Solar, 30 MW
Largest plants near San Luis Potosí
- Villa de Reyes: Oil, 700 MW, 38 km away
- Parque Fotovoltaico San Luis Potosi: Solar, 170 MW, 40 km away
- Potosí Iberdrola: Solar, 170 MW, 44 km away
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Places gazetteer (cities, airports, regions): Natural Earth populated places; OurAirports; Natural Earth admin-1; Wattlas curated places. License: Public domain
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain